Morro do Careca (Miocene of Brazil)

Where: Acre, Brazil (8.2° S, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 68.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Solimões Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Kerber, F. R. Negri, A. M. Ribeiro, N. Nasif, J. P. Souza-Filho and J. Ferigolo. 2017. Tropical fossil caviomorph rodents from the Southwestern Brazilian amazonia in the context of the South American faunas: systematics, biochronology and paleobiogeography. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(1):57-70 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191932: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 23.02.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Mourasuchus amazonensis1 Price 1964 crocodilian
UFAC-5269
Acresuchus pachytemporalis2 Souza-Filho et al. 2019 crocodilian
UFAC-5256
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Neoepiblema sp. Ameghino 1889 caviomorph
UFAC 5528
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Potamarchus cf. adamiae Kerber et al. 2016 caviomorph
UFAC-CS 057, UFAC-CS 043